Herding Grounds

Goats are an extremely versatile species found naturally throughout the Peloponnese. Kept and slaughtered by the ancients for their meat, milk, hides and fur, horns, and even dung for fuel, they found a practical use for almost every part of the animal. Goat hide is hard and leathery, making it an ideal material for use as a receptacle for water or wine, plus as a material with which to make rudimentary parchment. Their horns can be drunk from, sharpened into arrowheads, and even fashioned into armour. Even their intestines can be cleaned, scraped, soaked, and then drawn out into bowstrings!